As extraction communities in California
and Indigenous communities both face ongoing oil spills and
pollution, it’s important that the state doesn’t rely
on increasing domestic production in order to reduce its use of
Amazon crude. We need a just and sustainable future that
doesn’t involve fossil fuel expansion at home or in the
Amazon. The Stand community was founded to protect forests.
During the Summit of the
Americas, we put the Linked Fates of California and the Amazon on
the forefront, and now we must build on this progress by pushing
for policy change. We must call for stronger policies to end U.S.
and California's complicity in new oil drilling in the Amazon once
and for all.
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